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Czy Mieszko I był czarny?

Paintings and portraits from the far past almost without exception were created only after the deaths of major historical figures, sometimes even centuries later. As a result, they're often highly inaccurate and nearly fictional, shaped by the artist's imagination or beliefs. It's a lost history broski

>>192664
there is probably no depiction of Mieszko on and artwork
picrel is a coin with the portrait of Władysław Herman who lived 100 years after him and portrait of Matejko who lived another 900 years after Władysław

>>192669
It's very strange how history especially in these our lands, on the eastern side of the Baltic sea and in Polska is so quiet around the years 1000–1200. Especially here in lithuania. It's hard to believe that during all that time we were just some kind of semi-wild primitives. Of course, there are no surviving written sources from that period, but isn't it a kind of revisionism to claim that we were exactly those primitive, semi-wild people, and then suddenly started creating sophisticated societies?
To equip armies with armor and swords, you needed advanced metallurgy. To maintain those armies, you needed massive stables, food supplies, and fodder. Buildings, campaigns, logistics, and so on—it’s hard to believe everything was that primitive and then suddenly there was some rapid leap forward instantly.

Even your coinses in picrel 100yrs later indicate economic principles and so on.

>>192693
modern history is bullraisin

>>192693
In 1090 there were monks for around 130 years and they organized administration around modern voivodship-like territory. Only around 1130 the country was divided into kasztelanias, but writing was still in Latin. I don't really know how big the clergy took part in it.
I wish these early tribes of Slavs, Balts and Finnics learned some kind of runes.
I don't really get how Mieszko's ancestors were organising a burraucracy while being illiterate Pagans. Maybe they employed someone from the Great Moravia, Scandinavia or Frankish realm to advise because Mieszko's dynasty built tons of gróds on their conquered land which were often connected like lines of defence.
In Greater Poland, Mazovia or Sandomierz land they build 3 main gróds in each of these lands and these were probably some administrative centers. Pretty crazy it somehow worked without writing anything.

>>192693
Great Lechia is real

>>193368
wielka lechia była jednym z najbardziej rodzynkowych prób zrobienia schizolskiej starożytnej historii